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William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain

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CATHERINE ARBUTHNOTT is a consulting curator of exhibitions at the Bard Graduate Center and has contributed to several books on British designers, including James “Athenian” Stuart, 1713–1788: The Rediscovery of Antiquity (2006); Thomas Jekyll: Architect and Designer, 1827–1881 (co-curator and co-author with Susan Weber Soros, 2003), and E. W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer (1999).

GEOFFREY BEARD is former Director of the Visual Arts Centre at the University of Lancaster. He is the author of numerous books and articles on British craftsmen and interior decoration in country houses, including Craftsmen and Interior Decoration in England, 1660–1820 (1981); Stucco and Decorative Plasterwork in Europe (1982); and Upholsterers and Interior Furnishing in England, 1530–1840 (1997). He is co-founder of the Furniture History Society and former editor of Furniture History (1965–74).

STEVEN BRINDLE is a Senior Properties Historian in the Curatorial Department of English Heritage. He has published numerous books and articles on aspects of architectural history, including the Blue Guide to the Country Houses of England (with Geoffrey Tyack, 1991); Paddington Station — Its History and Architecture (2004); and Brunel, the Man Who Built the World (2005). He is currently working on a multi-authored history of Windsor Castle for the Royal Collection.

JULIUS BRYANT is Keeper of Word & Image at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Between 1990 and 2005 he was Director of Museums and Collections and Chief Curator at English Heritage, where he specialized in the restoration, redisplay, and reinterpretation of historic houses open to the public. His publications include London’s Country House Collections (1992); Kenwood: Paintings in the Iveagh Bequest (2003); Art and Design for All: The Victoria & Albert Museum (editor, 2011); and several guidebooks. He was the V&A’s lead curator of James “Athenian” Stuart, organized with the Bard Graduate Center in 2006.

JOHN HARDY is a specialist in eighteenth-century furniture and interior decoration. He began his career in the London antique trade, later serving for twenty-five years in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Furniture Department and twenty-one years at Christie’s, London. He has lectured and published widely, including an essay in Holkham (Schmidt, Keller, and Feversham, eds., 2005). At the present time he is contributing to a forthcoming book on Hopetoun House, Scotland, and is writing a book on ornament and iconography entitled Seeing in the Brain.

JOHN HARRIS is Curator Emeritus of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects. An historian of architecture, gardens, and architectural drawings, he has written or contributed to more than forty books and catalogues, and more than two hundred articles, most recently Badminton: The Duke of Beaufort, His House (2008) and Moving Rooms: The Trade in Architectural Salvages (2007). He was co-organizer of the exhibition Destruction of the Country House (1974) at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He holds the title of Honorary Life Presidency of the International Confederation of Architectural Museums, of which he was a founding member.

JOHN DIXON HUNT is Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape at the School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of many books, including Greater Perfections: The Practice of Garden Theory (2000); The Picturesque Garden in Europe (2002); and A World of Gardens (2012). Forthcoming publications include Historical Grounds: The Role of History in Contemporary Landscape Architecture and A Cultural History of Gardens, with Michael Leslie.

TIM KNOX is Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. While Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum in London (2005–13), he completed the first of two phases of the “Opening up the Soane” project. At the National Trust he served as Architectural Historian, and later as Head Curator, he was involved with the restoration of the landscape gardens at Stowe in Buckinghamshire. He regularly lectures and writes on aspects of architecture, sculpture, and the history of collecting. Recent publications include Sir John Soane’s Museum London (2009) and The British Ambassador’s Residence Paris (2011).

CLARISSA CAMPBELL ORR is Reader in Enlightenment, Gender, and Court Studies at Anglia Ruskin University. She is best known for her two edited collections, Queenship in Britain 1660–1837: Royal Patronage, Dynastic Politics, and Court Culture (2002) and Queenship in Europe 1650–1789 (2004). She has contributed essays to many publications, including Johan Zoffany, Society Observed (2011); An Enlightenment Statesman in Whig Britain: Lord Shelburne (1737–1805) in Context (co-editor and contributor; 2011); Mrs. Delany and Her Circle (2009); and The Hanoverian Dimension to British History (2007), among others. Currently she is at work on a biography of Mary Granville Delany.

FRANK SALMON is Senior Lecturer in History of Art, University of Cambridge, and from 2009 to 2012 was Head of the Cambridge History of Art Department. He is a Fellow and Tutor of St. John’s College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He has authored many publications on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and European architecture, including the prize-winning Building on Ruins: The Rediscovery of Rome and English Architecture (2000), and he was editor of and contributor to The Persistence of the Classical: Essays on Architecture Presented to David Watkin (2008).

NICHOLAS SAVAGE joined the Library and Collections Department of the Royal Academy of Arts as Deputy Librarian in 1987 and has been its Librarian since 1995. From 1978 to 1987 he served as Rare Books Librarian at the British Architectural Library (RIBA). His contributions to many publications include British Architectural Books and Writers, 1556–1785 (1990); “The Viceroy of the Academy: Sir William Chambers and Royal Protection of the Arts,” in Sir William Chambers, Architect to George III (1996); John Soane Architect: Master of Space and Light (1999); and “Exhibiting Architecture: Strategies of Representation in English Architectural Exhibition Drawings 1760–1836,” in Art on the Line: the Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House (2001).

MICHAEL SNODIN is Honorary Curator and Chairman of the Strawberry Hill Trust. He was formerly Senior Curator and Head of the Designs Collection and Senior Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum. At the V&A he curated a number of major exhibitions, including Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth’s England (1984); Baroque, Style in the Age of Magnificence (2009); and Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill (2010). In addition to exhibition catalogues, his books include Design and the Decorative Arts: Britain 1500–1900 (2001) and Exploring Architecture: Buildings, Meaning and Making (2004).

DAVID WATKIN is Emeritus Professor of the History of Architecture at the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. His many books include A History of Western Architecture (5th edition, 2011); Sir John Soane: Enlightenment Thought and the Royal Academy Lectures (1996); Morality and Architecture Revisited (2001); Radical Classicism: The Architecture of Quinlan Terry (2006); and The Roman Forum (2009).

SUSAN WEBER is Founder and Director of the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture. She is the author of The Secular Furniture of E. W. Godwin (1999) and editor and contributing author of the catalogue E. W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer (1999). She has co-authored and served as editor for numerous exhibition catalogues, including Thomas Jeckyll: Architect and Designer, 1827–1881 (co-curator and co-author with C. A. Arbuthnott, 2003); Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry (2004); and James “Athenian” Stuart 1713–1788: The Rediscovery of Antiquity (2006). She is the recipient of many awards, including Soane Foundation Honors from Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation (2010) and the Philip C. Johnson Award of the Society of Architectural Historians (2005).

ROGER WHITE is a freelance architectural historian and a contributing editor of House & Garden magazine. He has curated a number of exhibitions, including Europe and the English Baroque (with Charles Hind, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2009) and Nicholas Hawksmoor and the Replanning of Oxford (British Architectural Library Drawings Collection and Ashmolean Museum, 1997–98). His publications include The Architectural Drawings of Magdalen College Oxford: A Catalogue (2001); a guide to Holkham Hall in Norfolk (2010); and A Life of Frederick, Prince of Wales, 1707–1751 (editor, 2007). For nearly twenty years he served as a member of the Chiswick House Advisory Panel and was Secretary of the Georgian Group from 1984 to 1991.

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